If he really had done that, there would have been some good news: two Ash Wednesdays in the same calendar year.
Christians like that shit.
At the time I noted some bad news: if he doesn't blow everything up, I said, donnie will be on the 'net all night raving and ranting, farting and moaning, and what little is left of America's prestige and credibility will be drowned out in those hours by the world-wide barrage of snickers, guffaws and belly laughs the donnieShrieks will elicit.
And the plaques on all the golden statues will have to be changed from "donnie the decimator" to "donnie the damn fool wanna be".
And either way, the moment he said that he's going to blow up Iran, he crossed into war‑crime territory.
And either way, the United States is now a criminal, or a buffoon, or both.
Making the announcement with the Easter Bunny as witness did a I nice job of pointing to which of those options is operative.
But the really interesting thing is going to be, I further said, given that war crimes thing, would the military heed the recent video released by a group of six Democratic lawmakers with military and national‑security backgrounds in which those lawmakers emphasized the long‑established principle of military law: troops can and must refuse unlawful orders?
And would Congress execute its duty?
Since this post was posted pre-taco, but is being retained and updated for continued use post taco, we know the answer: the republican Congress did nothing, not a bang, not even a whimper.
And the military was spared showing its hand: the taco came just before Armageddon.
But since no intervention, by Congress, was taken, we know the truth.
All the checks and balances were missing in action and America died just short of 250.
I was guessing that that truth would prevail.
And, sure enough, it did.
Probably a good thing because the ten point deal (looks amazingly like an ultimatum) that donnie has negotiated pretty well disqualifies us from any adjacency to world leadership.
But then, after the first shrieks of joy from the stock market, it became apparent that donnie and Iran had different ten points.
Iran had ten clear demands, without which, no Strait of Hormuz.
donnie had some whiney shit that makes no sense but sounds good when Pete Hegseth interleaves it with quotations from the bible and equates a downed pilot with the Resurrection.
That's heavy christian shit.
I guess Pete is pre-empting the chosen people.
That might fuck up the ten points.
The now interesting major question of whatever the future becomes is do we just close up shop, and fade into being a fourth rate totalitary with a dying nut in charge or do we arrest, indict, prosecute, convict and punish the faction, and its leader, that ended us so short of our birthday?
And start over on the long and tortuous track to greatness?
Probably not.
Fourth rateness is more the style of the 77.3 million who got us into this mess.
